Fair Fighting Rules

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When working with a couple (or family, or individual) who has toxic arguments, it can be helpful to teach them about fair fighting rules. Be sure to practice in session, and come up with a specific plan for how a couple will implement the rules. Share a copy of this printout for your client to keep at home so they can be reminded of the rules when they need them the most...

Anger Warning Signs

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Use this worksheet at the beginning of anger management treatment to help educate clients about their physical and behavioral responses to anger. We recommend taking time to help your client identify their earliest warning signs of anger that might be less obvious and more difficult to recognize, so they can cut off aggression before it has an opportunity to take over...

Relaxation Techniques

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Educate clients about deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and imagery using the Relaxation Techniques info sheet. This printout includes a brief description of the fight-or-flight response and step-by-step instructions on how to use each relaxation technique.
We suggest practicing each of these techniques in session and providing this handout as a take-home reminder of the skills your client has learned...

Cycle of Abuse

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Learning about the Cycle of Abuse can be illuminating for a client who is struggling in an abusive relationship. Oftentimes, people are shocked at how closely the cycle mirrors their own experience. This printout depicts the common pattern followed by many abusive relationships, beginning with building tension, an abusive incident, the honeymoon phase, and then a calm...

Daily Mood Chart

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Use the Daily Mood Chart worksheet alongside CBT interventions to help clients practice recognizing the links between their environment, thoughts, and feelings.
Every two hours your client will record the emotions they've experienced, and make note about what was happening during that time. Encourage them to rate the intensity of their feelings on a scale of 1-10...

Weekly Mood Chart

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Mood tracking can be a powerful technique for clients who are having difficulty identifying the source of negative emotions. Patterns in moods might be difficult to detect during the hurry of day-to-day life, but they jump out from a completed mood chart.
Ask your client to carry the Weekly Mood Chart with them for seven days between sessions, and jot down a few notes in each square...

Anger Management Skills

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Give your clients a handy list of Anger Management Skills that they can refer to as needed. The techniques covered in this worksheet include: Learning to recognize anger, taking a timeout, deep breathing, exercise, expressing anger, thinking of consequences, and visualization.
Use this worksheet as a guide to help teach clients new techniques, or as a reference they can use to remind themselves of skills they have learned in therapy sessions...

The Cycle of Anger

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Show your clients how their anger can be triggered, and how it escalates, using the Cycle of Anger printout. This anger worksheet uses the CBT model to explain how anger grows from irrational thoughts, and leads to a difficult-to-break cycle of growing frustration.
The Cycle of Anger diagram depicts anger as beginning with a trigger, which leads to negative thoughts, emotions, physical symptoms, and a behavioral response...

Anger Diary

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Before successfully managing anger, many clients will first need to develop the ability to recognize their temper before it has reached explosive levels. One common and effective strategy for improving emotional awareness is by recording relevant events in an Anger Diary. This task may be challenging the first time around, so we suggest that you practice completing this worksheet in session using examples or events from the client's past...

Introduction to Anger Management

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The Introduction to Anger Management worksheet has everything you need to get your clients started on the topic of anger. We begin by defining anger (especially, how anger differs from aggression), and then move through topics such as triggers, the expression of anger, and consequences of anger.
The format of this worksheet mimics what you might see in a longer anger management intervention plan...

Disclaimer: The resources available on Therapist Aid do not replace therapy, and are intended to be used by qualified professionals. Professionals who use the tools available on this website should not practice outside of their own areas of competency. These tools are intended to supplement treatment, and are not a replacement for appropriate training.